• When you reach a point in your business where you are juggling too many balls and you begin to drop them.
• When you want to free yourself of areas that are not your strengths or which you do not enjoy.
• When doing certain functions takes away from you doing your job.
• When you have to deal with time management issues.
• When you need to create free time to strategize and plan.
• When you need to reduce the amount of time you are working, not only in hours but days.

You need to delegate to:

• Create growth in your organization and/or the company.
• Protect yourself and the company in case of your incapacity.
• Contribute to the succession plans of the company. You need to delegate now as much of your functions as possible in order to create value by covering all positions.
• Reduce stress. If you delegate you will still be responsible, but you won’t have the stress of having to do it all yourself.

You must realize that your staff isn’t the source of your problems; they are the solution to them. Don’t look at your employees as a time consuming obligation that you have as manager or leader; if you chose your staff carefully and hired the right people, they should be the help that you need to be effective. Your ability to delegate will make the difference.

How much of your to-do list you could delegate? Dedicate your efforts to identify what you can delegate and what you need to have in order to be able to successfully delegate.